A senior Iranian official said the human rights is an issue related to all humans and not to the US and Europe alone, adding the United States and Europe are not qualified to speak about human rights due to the crimes they have perpetrated.

Ukraine has charged a prisoner swap negotiator with plotting to assassinate the country’s Western-backed president as well as other officials by staging attacks on their homes and offices with mortar fire and grenades.

The European Union is prepared to retaliate against US President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs but still seeks talks with the United States over the decision to settle the dispute, a senior EU official says.

The European Union expects to be excluded from US steel and aluminum tariffs but will go to the World Trade Organization to impose its own measures if Washington presses ahead, EU officials said on Friday.